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Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…
Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
17. The Mahometans live in such an exemplary concord, that they seldom break into ill language; but if they do so, a third man will reprove him, with a fie mussul-man, fall out! and all is appeased. Were it not to be wished ⟨p. 282⟩that the Mahometans were Christians, and in this that Christians were Mahometans.
17. The Mahometans live in such an exemplary concord, that they seldome break into ill language; but if they do so, a third man will reprove him, with a fie mussul-man, fall out! and all is appeas'd. Were it not to bee wisht ⟨p. 282⟩that the Mahometans were Christians, and in this that Christians were Mahometans.
18. Themistocles said to Simonides, asking an unreasonable matter of him, thou canst be to good Poet to sing against the rule of Music, nor I a good Governor to do any thing against the Law. Justice must be preferred before courtesy.
18. Themistocles said to Simonides, asking an unreasonable matter of him, thou canst bee to good Poet to sing against the rule of Musick, nor I a good Governor to do any thing against the Law. Justice must be preferred before courtesie.
19. Aristides 'tis said was never the prouder for any honour, nor thought himself disgraced by any overthrow, b•ing always of this mind, that it was the duty of an honest Citizen to be ever ready to offer his body and life to do his Country service, without respect and hope of reward of money, or for honour and glory. 'Tis good to live above encouragements and discouragements, and to mind nothing so much as our duty.